A Death at Crooked Creek snow & tundra Cecilia Benoit

Cecilia Benoit

compares widows’ lived experiences to public memory

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Deadpan tracks instances and meanings of deadpan—a vaudeville term meaning “dead face”—across literature

would never accept free blacks as citizens

A Death at Crooked Creek snow & tundra Cecilia Benoit"This is an extraordinary and ground breaking book, a wonderfully creative mix of fact and theory, imagination and drama. Anyone with an interest in law, history, or, for that matter, great storytelling will fall in love with A Death at Crooked Creek. The startling origin of the complex 'intention exception' to the hearsay evidence rule becomes canvas on which a grand and marvelously detailed tale is told. This is modern narrative at its best: a